Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:10:11 +0600 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail and plain text password Message-ID: <20091230111011.GA90168@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> In-Reply-To: <20091230101248.GA74666@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20091228151553.GA7478@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091228173515.GA27630@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20091229111150.GA15440@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <19257.65081.681654.499622@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20091229132209.GC27042@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20091229134420.GA15874@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091229165324.791c7260@gumby.homeunix.com> <20091229172642.GA17698@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091230081651.GA88089@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20091230101248.GA74666@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > Are you saying I can make mutt read mail directly from the imap > > > server? Without fetchmail? > > > > Certainly. mutt is a very good IMAP client, you can do some tricky > > things with it like > > > > mutt -f imaps://you@yourserver.edu/~otheruser/somefolder/somemailbox > > wow! that's so easy, why didn't I find this before.. > > thanks a lot for this hint! > > Is it possible to run it as a daemon, so that I don't have to > enter password each time? I don't think so. You either have to use Kerberos like I do (mutt supports GSSAPI), or you have to store you password in ~/.mutt/muttrc (see the "imap_pass" directive etc). Yes, in cleartext. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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